Cackle vs Clucks - What's the difference?

cackle | clucks |

As verbs the difference between cackle and clucks

is that cackle is to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does while clucks is (cluck).

As a noun cackle

is the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.

cackle

English

Noun

(en noun)

The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg

A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.

Verb

(en-verb)

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

* Shakespeare

When every goose is cackling .

To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp

, chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

(Johnson)

Synonyms

* See also

clucks

English

Verb

(head)

(cluck)

cluck

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal) * (l)

Noun

(en noun)

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Any sound similar to this.

A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

Verb

(en verb)

To make such a sound.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

* Shakespeare

She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, / Has clucked three to the wars.

to suffer withdrawal from heroin.